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June Bugs
Despite that phrase about the soft rains of April, here in Singapore in June there is no end in sight. I’m not so sure that there is such a thing as soft rain in SE Asia. At least Singapore is a great...
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Steve Jobs
My world has been forever changed by one man. I cannot and will not even begin to attempt to express the sadness I feel over his loss. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...
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Siri-ously?
I understand that Siri is still in beta, but it can still be extremely irritating how it interprets some things so oddly. I asked “How far is it from Singapore to Amsterdam” with Siri just insisting...
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CELTA: Day 1
The posts coming up will likely be of even less interest to anyone but myself than usual, but I need to keep a record of the events of the next few months for myself so this is where that will be. The...
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CELTA: Day 2; TP 1
This first week of CELTA (yes, I know this is the second day but my particular on-site class sessions are on Wednesdays and Fridays) has been quite a whirlwind of activity. The class philosophy is on...
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SingTel Mystery Fail
I was humming along on the internet last Tuesday when the ‘next page’ link didn’t work for some reason. That’s not so unusual so I tried another site. Nothing. I rebooted. Nothing. I rebooted the...
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CELTA: Day 3-4; TP 2
Last week was quite something. I taught my first 40 minute skill class on gist and detail reading. It went quite well but I need to work on time management and my own voice projection. After doing the...
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CELTA: Day 5; TP 3
I got the first chance to observe an experienced teacher on Tuesday. It was only the first two hours of a four-hour class, but it exhibited in reality what we’ve been dwelling on the theory of quite...
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SugarSync – The Black Cloud
About, well, exactly this time last year I had a look at SugarSync, a competitor in the cloud storage space. They had a deal of 49.99 for 60GB of space for a year. I was reminded of this today when I...
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Another WebHostFace
DreamHost. It was alright. Not a dream, though. An expiring discount wanes along with the realization that this blog rests decidedly along the more leisurely stagnant slope. So, to preserve the...
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Learn the strategies used by the most successful students. Topics include speed reading, speed memorization, productivity, procrastination and more! Source: Study Hacks & Learning Techniques | HACK...
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"Pooh?" said Piglet."Yes, Piglet?" said Pooh."Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra," said Piglet."Shaka, when the walls fell," said Pooh. — Michael G. Munz (@TheWriteMunz) November 17, 2015 It’s interesting...
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View ArticleHow Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
camelcamelcamel.com is your friend … The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers’ wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Solitude
When did we first step out of the wild and into the forever-crowded city? There was a time when all we had was access to nature—we were so inextricably in it and of it. Our ancestors spent their first...
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